"Guardiola's Barca are still King," Spanish daily El Pais said on its front page, while El Mundo led with "The absolute power of Barca".

Barcelona based sports paper El Mundo Deportivo said that Barcelona's win, which came thanks to goals from Alexis Sanchez, Xavi Hernandez and Cesc Fabrigas was "the blow of a Champion", and "another exhibition from Barcelona in the Bernabeu".

"Barcelona brought Madrid down to earth and fly to Japan as leaders," said the paper.

Those words were echoed in another pro-Barca paper, Diario Sport. It was, simply, a ..."Hammering of Madrid".

El Clásico even made it on to the front page of Diario de Noticias da Madeira. Ronaldo, of course, was born in the capital Funchal and the country's leading newspaper splashed Real's defeat with one word: "disaster".

The last word fell to Barcelona-based Sport. "Guardiola is slowly turning pieces to fit the entire Barcelona puzzle," the paper said.

"It won't be the last time that Guardiola and his team will get the better of Mourinho either."